marți, 18 octombrie 2011

The Winter Wellness Diet - 15

HOW JUICING CAN BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF GETTING NUTRIENTSDoes anyone else remember Jack LaLane in the 80’s and 90’s blasting the airwaveswith his juicers and talking about how great it is for you health? Just because we don’tsee the infomercials anymore doesn’t mean that juicing isn’t good for us. In fact, juicingis the old fad that can be the start of a new you.Juicing is not rocket science. Basically, there are two types of machines: one that has ahigh speed blade that shreds the fruit or vegetable into tiny particles and then “spins”them around at a high speed to extract the juice. The other kind of juicers shred biggerpieces from the food and then use a slower “press the juice out” type of method.When it comes to buying a juicer I don’t think it’s a big deal which kind you go with.There are many different price tiers from $40-$400. I don’t advocate anything inparticular. When it comes to getting healthy quicker and losing more weight, myfeelings are to spend more money on good food and whole food supplements. Ipersonally use an $80 juicer that I got for $35 on a heck of a deal from Marshall’s orKohl’s(I remember the price more so than where I bought it). It extracts a lot of juice, ispretty easy to clean and I use it probably 5 times a week. One important thing toconsider when juicing food is that oxygen is the enemy. Vitamins are sensitive to airand the juice loses some of its nutritional value when exposed to air after a few minutes,so drinking the juice right away after you make it is important for maximum benefit.So why juice? Juicing is so important with the WWD because it helps you get morenutrients. If our goal is to get you more nutrients so your body can repair, detoxify anddrop fat then juicing is an integral part of the solution. Why not take vitamins then if thegoal is to get more nutrients? Like I said before, I do take a daily effervescent multivitamin,BUT the goal is to get more nutrients. As previously revealed, we don’t knowhow many nutrients are in plants that we don’t even know about. When it comes totaking a vitamin made in a lab you are losing out on all those phytochemicals that are soimportant to your health.Try eating a pound of carrots, 6 stalks of celery, a cucumber and a whole grapefruit inone sitting. Yea, it can be done but that is a tall task. In addition it will make you full forquite a while and take a lot of time to eat that much. Lastly, if you made a meal out offood like that, you would get tons of vitamins, minerals and other micro-nutrients but notmuch in the form of protein or the essential fatty acids. That’s why juicing is essential tothis diet. You get more micro-nutrients while still having room in your stomach to get thenecessary macro-nutrients.I specifically use this kind of juicing method for myself to stay healthy and have tons ofenergy. If eating fresh, nutrient-dense food is good, eating fresh, nutrient-dense foodwith the extra concentrated nutrient addition of juice is better! If you are reading thisbook without the desire to lose weight, but simply to become healthier and reduce yourrisk of cancer and disease, juicing is a powerful solution.There’s another way of juicing to achieve fast and healthy weight loss. It is how I juice ifI am cleansing or detoxifying which is precisely what you can do when trying to loseweight. Since you can consume many more nutrients in liquid form than eating them,it’s a great opportunity to pump your body full of these cleansing, body repairingwonders. Fresh juice along with a super shakes and super smoothies can get youthrough most of your day without consuming many calories which will help you melt thefat off your body, detoxify and stay healthy even when those around you get sick.Essentially what juicing does is give you the water and nutrients while removing the bulkmatter which largely consists of fiber. Typically, the first objection to juicing is, “Ithought that fiber was good and necessary, so why juice and strip all that fiber away?Simply put, the nutrients are more necessary than the fiber. You generally need fiber tohelp push the bulk matter through, but with juicing you are ingesting liquid nutrition thatdoesn’t really need digesting. Juicing is like taking the best the plant has to offer andinjecting it straight into your blood stream. This gives those valuable nutrients the bestchance to get to organs quickly where they can begin the repair process to set thingsstraight.Additionally, you can juice parts of food that you wouldn’t typically eat. (11)For instance,there are cancer fighting compounds that were recently discovered in the skin ofgrapefruit. I don’t know anyone who eats the skins of grapefruit, oranges or other citrusfruits. There are possible tens of thousands of compounds in edible foods that wehaven’t even discovered yet. Who knows what kind of nutritional bounty you’reingesting when you juice your favorite foods skin and all.To summarize, juicing fruits and vegetables can provide you with valuable nutrients inhigher quantities than you would normally be able to consume. It will be one of themost important elements of you losing weight faster and safer than with traditional diets.Juicing will help you detoxify faster and build your strength for a life-long battle againstcarcinogenic chemicals that exist in every part of the world we live in.